Fluence by OSRAM (Fluence) recently released its sixth annual "State of the Cannabis Lighting Market" report in partnership with Cannabis Business Times.
The results from this year's report create another invaluable layer of research supporting the efficacy of LED rasvjeta as a solution for full-cycle cannabis cultivation. The report utilizes data collected from cultivators throughout North America following an in-depth survey by Readex Research, a nationally acclaimed, third-party research organization.
"In recent years, not only have we observed the meteoric rise in LED adoption, but cannabis cultivators in particular are realizing the benefits of LED lighting strategies at each stage of plant production," says Fluence CEO David Cohen. "At Fluence, we are led by science in our exploration of the interaction between light and life to yield a healthier, more sustainable world."
The report provides a holistic view on the connection between different lighting solutions and plant growth across all stages — propagation, vegetation, and flowering — analyzing which solutions note upward trends of adoption by cannabis cultivators and why. Key findings include:
LED rasvjeta je-najpoželjnija metoda osvjetljenja među kultivatorima širom Sjeverne Amerike, koja vodi u svim kategorijama: razmnožavanje, vegetacija i cvjetanje.
Upotreba LED-a za uzgoj kanabisa porasla je za više od 45 posto u svim fazama rasta od početnog izvještaja iz 2016.
Nedavni skokovi u usvajanju LED dioda se djelimično pripisuju sve većoj implementaciji vertikalnih regala, koja je dovela do blagog povećanja u vegetaciji i cvjetanju.
63 posto uzgajivača koji trenutno ne koriste LED diode tokom cvatnje razmišlja o implementaciji rješenja u narednih 12 mjeseci
Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da je 60 posto učesnika navelo da su mogućnosti zatamnjivanja rasvjetnih tijela podjednako važne ili vrlo važne za njihove uzgojne operacije.
15 posto kultivatora reklo je da je upravljanje troškovima energije najveći izazov kada se razmatra LED rasvjeta.
"Under LEDs, we were seeing buds that were tighter and terpene tests that were higher than what we'd see with traditional HPS lights," says Matt LaBrier, Chief Operations Officer at Proper Cannabis. "As power becomes more of a regulator in the indoor farming space and farmers educate themselves, everyone is going to go to LED in vertical farming."
Izvještaj uključuje sveobuhvatan pregled trendova rasvjete u uzgoju kanabisa, uključujući razgovore s kultivatorima kanabisa i misaonim liderima širom Sjeverne Amerike iz organizacija kao što su Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation (TOCC), Fog City Farms, Institut za inovacije resursa (RII), Columbia Care, i više.
